The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation has raised alarm
over the threat to Nigerians’ human rights under the guise of probe by the
present administration under President Buhari a former military dictator.
The group made this known while reacting to the clamp down on
the residence of the former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki. It should
be noted that this same Dasuki was reported to have arrested the present leader
of Nigeria when he was overthrown by former military President Ibrahim
Babangida in 1985.
The group said the President should realize that Nigerians
have not forgotten his record with human rights abuses as a military dictator and
will not fail to tackle him on that.
The group in the press statement signed by its national
Coordinator Comrade Nwokoma Messiah and Director of Publicity Amakiri Christiana said
the President should carry out his change mantra without recourse to trampling
on the rights of Nigerians. It said the nation has moved away from the era of
militocracy and dictatorship and urged the President to do same.
The NDRO decried the arrest of some top politicians whom it
described as perceived threats to his administration. “It is disheartening that
the present administration is now seen to be doing something worse than what
they accused the former ruling party of doing. We smell a case of victimization
against top shots of the PDP” the group said in the statement.
The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation also picked holes in
the anti-corruption posture of the present administration accusing the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission of being selective in its fight against
corruption. “It is suspicious that people like Timi Sylva who has been under
EFCC probe for his alleged financial impropriety and the former governor of
Rivers state Rotimi who squandered the resources of Rivers state have been
working free while the likes of Sule Lamido whose presidential ambition is
known to all are been haunted by the Commission that has suddenly realized it
has teeth to bite. We condemn their selective investigation which smacks of
nothing else than to witch hunt opposition politicians. We thought we have gone
past this stage when former President Obasanjo left power. We will resist such
selective probes using all legal and legitimate instruments available to us as
a group and as democratically minded Nigerians” the NDRO statement concluded.
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